A Malkuth of Me
Any posts that are not pen-name specific.
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Lessons Learned From a Writing Life Part Two
Be BOLD – Don’t censor your thoughts and ideas no matter how outside the mainstream they are. Playing it safe doesn’t bode well for a writer. Be FEARLESS – Don’t be afraid to try new things, embrace new technology, or hit publish on that novel you’ve had sitting in your desk drawer collecting dust for all these years. You never…
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A Writer’s Priority is Writing – Not Managing ALL the Social Media.
Today, I (and many other writers) received a survey from a marketing mentor asking about TikTok. Apparently, this is the direction advertising and selling books is heading. Mind you, for a young, tech-savvy fifty-year-old, I am perfectly comfortable with video, including platforms like TikTok. Chatting with an audience is easy if I know in advance what I want to say.…
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Books Coming in 2022
Two titles for sure that are coming in 2022, and that you won’t want to miss include Aiming for Trouble and Inherited Djinn. In Inherited Djinn (Urban Fantasy, late March), we follow Bill MacPhegor as he navigates his new life as The Protectorate of the Vessels with his cigarette smoking, bourbon swilling djinn, Paimon, and the dark, brooding shop girl,…
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6 Ideas For A More Creative Space
If you haven’t guessed it – this month’s theme is creativity. One of the most frequent questions people ask me is: “How do you optimize your space for creativity?” That’s not always and easy answer because I feel like I’m still experimenting with my own creative space. Some days, I don’t want to work in my creative space at all…
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Live Intentionally
Each year in December, I choose a keyword or phrase that will inspire the coming year. At the end of 2018, I realized that I had lost the joy I usually found in my work. Writing had become a difficult chore that I dreaded. With that revelation, I had to stop and re-evaluate, and discover what, exactly, I had lost.…
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Setting Boundaries Does Not Equal Unelightenment
Any time I openly set boundaries about certain types of reader email or make mention of the things in the occulture that I find irritating, I am occasionally met with some variation of the following response: “You asked for this [people wasting your time and being trolling assholes] by writing books. Quit complaining. You make money from this. So maybe you should…
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2019 Affirmations – Goals
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. As a matter of fact, the last resolution I ever made (many years ago) was to never make another New Year’s Resolution, and it was the only resolution I’ve ever been able to keep. Resolutions tend to set some folks up for failure, and admittedly, I’m one of those people. Instead, I set goals…
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The Whiny Entrepreneur
We all know these people. They wake up one day, decide to start their own business, and when it doesn’t pan out immediately, they start whining how hard it is to be self-employed. I get it! I’ve been there off and on in my 27 years as a writer trying to make my living from my creative work. There are…
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Playlist for Illuminated Darkness (OTS 5)
For your listening pleasure – a list of songs (on Spotify) that have inspired Illuminated Darkness. This is the fifth book in the OTS Series. The first song on the list is the theme song for the entire novel. Each book I write has a theme song. Listen at your own risk. I have rather aggressive/dark tastes in music that…
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Everything Roses
In tarot, the symbol of roses suggests everything is in balance. Perhaps that’s why roses keep showing up in my life. The hectic schedule is finally starting to wind down and I’m tremendously excited for 2019. I have a lot going on. However, I have to remember that I still have a few things to pull out of the hat…